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- Taiwan: Police station evacuated after man walks in with unexploded wartime bomb
September 16, 2023
Police evacuated their station and called army bomb disposal experts after a man walked in with an unexploded bomb unearthed on a nearby worksite in Changhua County Wednesday, September 13. According ...
- India: 30 locations in Tamil Nadu & Telangana raided by NIA in ISIS recruitment case
September 16, 2023
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at 30 locations in Tamil Nadu and Telangana on Saturday in an ISIS radicalization and recruitment case. NIA’s sleuths carried out these searches ...
- Mali, Niger, Burkina form Sahel alliance to tackle insurgency
September 16, 2023
The military leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have signed an charter establishing defence alliance, ministerial delegations form the three Sahel countries. “Today, together with the Heads of State of ...
- PBS NewsHour TV Broadcast Highlights Safe Pro’s “Spotlight” Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Drone-Based Demining Technology
September 15, 2023
– PBS NewsHour Crew Films Safe Pro’s Team Utilizing Drones and AI to Address the Massive Humanitarian and Economic Crisis in Ukraine Caused by Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War ...
- Northern Ireland: Two police officers injured in fireworks incident in Enniskillen
September 15, 2023
A police officer suffered concussion and another was treated in hospital after a firework was aimed in their direction in Enniskillen on Thursday. It happened as officers responded to a ...
- IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 183
September 15, 2023
Underlining the potential dangers for nuclear safety and security during the conflict in Ukraine, the IAEA experts have continued to hear numerous explosions some distance away from the ZNPP, which ...
- How ‘war on terror’ was fought and won in Southeast Asia – for now
September 15, 2023
In the early 2000s, the potential for terror attacks in Southeast Asia appeared dramatically different from today. Indonesia was rocked by the Christmas Eve church bombings on December 24, 2000, ...
- Libya’s Storm Daniel could see unexploded WWII bombs emerge from Derna waters
September 15, 2023
Aid workers warned on Wednesday that Libya’s brutal and violent floods may unearth unexploded bombs and landmines from past conflicts in the wake of Storm Daniel and the collapse of ...
- US to conduct new interviews into the deadly 2021 bombing at Kabul airport
September 15, 2023
The United States military has announced it will conduct interviews with service members about the events leading up to a deadly suicide bombing near Kabul’s airport in August 2021, when ...
- Somalia: Al-Shabaab Suicide Car Bomb Attack Targets Galmudug leaders
September 15, 2023
In a brazen act of terror, the notorious extremist group al-Shabaab orchestrated a devastating suicide car bomb attack in Laas Ga’amey, Somalia. The attack targeted a gathering of high-ranking politicians, ...
- Belgian education minister condemns school arson attacks
September 15, 2023
Belgian education minister Caroline Desir has condemned a series of arson attacks on schools in recent days in protest against a new mandatory sex education course, saying the attacks were ...
- Ukraine: A Sea of Explosives 1,000 Kilometers Long
September 15, 2023
Russian troops have transformed the fighting front into what is likely the largest minefield in the world. Ukrainian sappers are making but slow progress through this sea of death. Sappers are ...
- This police robot is designed for bomb disposal, but in Newfoundland and Labrador it has a different job
September 14, 2023
The ICOR Flex is the latest design in bomb-disposal technology. The Newfoundland and Labrador RCMP do not encounter many bombs, so they use the robot for a very different job. Read ...
- US Army Airborne EOD techs hone skills during international parachute competition
September 14, 2023
For a group of American Soldiers who jump out of airplanes and defuse bombs for their nation, X marks the spot. Eight Airborne Explosive Ordnance Disposal Soldiers from the 192nd ...
- Nigeria: Commuters injured, one killed ‘after running into IED planted by ISWAP in Borno
September 14, 2023
A commercial vehicle travelling on the Kareto road in Mobbar LGA of Borno exploded after running into a roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Wednesday. The IED was believed to ...
- Kenya: Four al-Shabab terror suspects killed in border raid
September 14, 2023
Kenyan security forces have killed four al-Shabab terror suspects and injured several others after raiding the militant group’s camp in Garissa County, northeast part of the country, the police confirmed ...
- Australia’s Defence Force leads multinational team to support Nauru
September 14, 2023
As part of Operation Render Safe, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) led a multinational team to safely dispose of dangerous explosive remnants of war on the Pacific island of Nauru. A ...
- Israel: Six Palestinians killed in IED explosion during riots at Gaza border fence
September 14, 2023
A violent protest involving hundreds of rioters took place near the northern Gaza Strip border fence last night. Israeli authorities reported rioters throwing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and grenades. In one ...
- Cambodia hosts first multilateral operational training exercise on mine clearance
September 14, 2023
Cambodia is hosting the first multinational operational exercise at the Humanitarian Mine Action Field within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus under the theme “Pure Homeland-2023”. The first-of-its-kind ...
- India: One dies, another injured in IED blast triggered by Maoists in Jharkhand
September 13, 2023
Cleaner of a tractor was killed while the driver is still struggling for his life after the IED, planted by Maoists in Kolhan jungles, blew up under the pressure of ...
- Ecuador: Video shows police blowing up explosive-laden drone on prison’s roof
September 13, 2023
A drone loaded with explosives blasted a hole in the roof of a prison that has held some of Ecuador’s most notorious drug lords, in the latest sign of the ...
- Cyprus: Limassol man finds IED at entrance to his home
September 13, 2023
A 63-year-old man in Limassol found an improvised explosive device (IED) outside his home police reported on Wednesday. According to police statement, the man who found the IED in his home ...
- Michigan: Bomb squad diffuses homemade explosive on truck in Wayne
September 13, 2023
A slew of police departments and bomb squad agencies converged on a Wayne County neighborhood Sunday afternoon after a suspicious package alert was determined a credible threat. Residents were evacuated ...
- US trains Bangladesh Police in preventing WMD terrorism
September 13, 2023
The US Department of State’s Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, along with partners from CRDF Global and Thin Blue Line, International, trained Bangladesh Police officials on investigative skills ...
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